Christopher Jacklin – Baritone

The oldest child of a musical family, Christopher is a graduate of ENO’s Opera Works and the Royal College of Music. Studying with Justin Lavender, he is a prize-winner in the Joan Chissell Schumann, AESS Patricia Routledge and Haverhill Sinfonia Competitions, and took the Promising Singer Prize at the 2012 Dean & Chadlington Music Festival. He won the 2011 ROSL Ensemble Competition with the octet Cries of London.

In concert, he has performed Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers with the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Elgar’s The Kingdom with Abingdon Choral Society, and Handel’s Messiah with Cries of London. He also sang at the close of the 2011 Cardiff Music Festival alongside Dennis O’Neill, the opening of the 2013 Dean & Chadlington Festival alongside Richard Coxon and Craig Ogden, and at the Anghiari Festival with Southbank Symphonia, Festivalensemble Stuttgart with the Internationale Bachakademie, and Spitalfields Festival with Cries of London.

Forthcoming engagements include Verdi’s Requiem at the Wycombe Swan Theatre, Dottore Grenvil in La Traviata for Iford Festival Opera, Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera for Opera Up Close, Barber of Seville for OperaUpClose on tour, the world premiere of Darren Bloom’s Little Kettle-Head at the Tête-a-Tête and Grimeborne Festivals for Size Zero Opera (a co-development with LSO Soundhub) and Narrator in Paul Bunyan for British Youth Opera.